Details of Christoph Eschenbach and the Ticket Luck value

Christoph Eschenbach is a famous pianist and conductor residing in Washington DC as the music director of the prestigious National Symphony Orchestra. He is also the music director of the famous John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. An orphan, he was born to an anti–Nazi demonstrator father who was politically active against the Nazi movement in Germany and was killed for it. Traumatic after this, he began playing music and found that he enjoyed doing so. He was adopted by his mother’s cousin and by the age of eleven, he had grown fully fond of classical music. After seeing live a concert starring Wilhelm Furtwangler, he grew even more determined to lead a career in classical music. Today, he is seen by many live in concert with Christoph Eschenbach tickets.

In 1965, Christoph Eschenbach joined the Musikhochschule in the famous city of Cologne. Here, he studed the piano under Hans–Otto Schmidt–Neuhas and then studied how to conduct music under Wilhelm Bruckner–Ruggeberg. As a young pianist, he kicked off his musical career by winning many piano competitions, starting with the Clara Haskil Competition held in Vevey in 1965 in Switzerland. By that time, he had already recorded music for the Deutsche Grammophon, with whom he had signed a contract. He went on to study and work for George Szell, as well as Herbert von Karajan who was his mentor for a good twenty five years.

Onwards to the eighties and Christoph Eschenbach had established himself as one of the foremost pianists and conductors in classical musics. In 1981, he joined the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich as the principal guest conductor and then became its chief conductor a year later for four more years. His next position was the music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra from 1988 until 1999. He is the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate today. In 1992, he became one of the two artistic directors of the Pacific Music Festival, a position he held until 1998.

In 1998, he became the NDR Symphony Orchestra’s conductor until 2004. At the same time, he was the Ravinia Festival’s music director, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was also the Schleswig–Holstein Musik Festival’s artistic director at the same time. In 2000, he became the Orchestre de Paris’ music director until 2010. During the same period, he was the Philadelphia Orchestra’s music director from 2003 to 2008. In 2010, he joined the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra as the music director of both. He holds these two prestigious positions today and is one of the foremost names in the world of classical music.

As a musician and as a conductor, he has recorded an amazing eighty plus recordings. He has also been featured in numerous documentaries with his concerts broadcast to audiences all over the world, in the US, in Europe and even in Japan. Having received the tutelage of great mentors, he has gone on to support and mentor great young musicians including Renee Fleming, pianists Tzimon Barto, cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, cellist Claudio Bohórquez, pianist Lang Lang, and soprano Marisol Montalvo.

He has led many great orchestras, including the Houston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra today.

He is also the recipient of many awards and honors, including the French Order of Arts and Letters from the French government, the Legion d’honneur from the French President, the German Officer’s Cross with Star and Ribbon, the Commander’s Cross from the German government and the Pacific Music Festival’s Leonard Bernstein Award. He is a musician, a pianist and a conductor to catch live with Christoph Eschenbach tickets in hand.